Was enjoying myself until T2
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:50 pm
Basically the title. I had a great time in T1, probably because I'm new, the zones are smaller and the mechanics are simpler. I managed to grind out all the RvR influence gear I needed to supplement the token/vendor gear and after adding talismans I felt pretty strong for a lvl 15. Since hitting lvl 16+ my enjoyment has really diminished.
When I started out I wanted to level slowly, work on my RR and collect gear as I go so that I can actually have fun while levelling instead of just powerlevelling through PvE which I don't find that interesting but the way the ORvR works isn't really letting me do that. Because Destro zones remain locked for such a long time I can't reasonably grind up influence in the T2 zones before outlevelling them and I can't access the keeps right now to get the level 24 gear either because Destro have all of them and the zones are locked and I don't know how long for.
Because of this I've been forced to enter the T4 zones and attempt to do RvR there and while I was looking forward to this at endgame it's really sucky at the moment for a new player. The first issue I'm having is finding a WB with open slots, and when I've done that the next one is getting to them. I've wasted hours at this point just getting ganked repeatedly in the middle of RvR lakes trying to get to the WB I just joined but being completely unable to, and most of the time when I do get there I'm already feeling pretty frustrated with the game and it's not that enjoyable. This has happened so many times now it's gone from being funny to just completely tiring.
For example, I joined a warband in Reikland and followed them to Praag, once we hit Praag the leader and some others AFK'd so I was helping some dude run supplies. When they returned everyone disappeared off to Black Crag to raid the southern keep and I must've spent 30 minutes running through that zone trying to follow people and figure out the way. I followed a random WL but it turned out we were both lost and died a bunch of times to mobs. Eventually I asked my WB, they told me the way and as soon as I got to Badmoon Tunnels I saw an IB fighting a black ork, so I helped him out. After about 30 seconds of fighting some other players including a couple of Order healers joined in, but then a WE nuked me out of nowhere (surprise bitch you're dead) and they ignored my request for a rez. That's apparently what you get for helping strangers. Yeah so I spawn at the warcamp at the northern edge of the zone and at that point I just gave up because I'm not running for 10 more minutes through that **** zone just to get ganked in a tunnel again and not be able to even participate in the siege.
A similar situation occurred in Caledon where Destro were just roaming around ganking any stragglers like myself trying to get to Fell Landing. After spending **** ages trying to slip through to Fell Landing it turned out the zone was full and I never got to enter. More time wasted just being ganked in the road. Btw I don't have a problem with ganking/roaming whatever it is called here itself, it's part of the game and I encourage it despite the frustration. It's also a pretty clever tactic imo to split WBs up a bit and stop reinforcements getting to keeps, not sure how effective it actually is but it's good to see this type of thing.
The few times I've actually managed to meet up with my WB I've also gotten very little out of it too. I haven't completed a single "kill 25 players" quest in all the sieges I've been in and it's probably just due to the sheer volume of WBs and the fact people aren't really fighting that much they're just kinda sat on the keep walls harassing each other.
It's really getting frustrating just being that one lost noob all the time who doesn't really know what's going on and trying to keep up with pugs, and if you do ever reunite with them you'll just be useless anyway. What's worse is I don't even seem to be making much progress at all. I'm getting negligible amounts of renown, exp and inf for all this time invested and I'm just not having that much fun either. I wanted my levelling experience to be slow and enjoyable not slow and **** basically.
I need some advice really because I really don't know what to do. In all honesty I've just been frustrated all day. I was struggling in T4 and T2 zones were locked so I tried some scs. I was doing pretty badly and losing them also I logged a T1 alt. T1 had 67% Destro online at that particular time and the largest WB I could gather was 11 people with 0 healers so you can imagine how that went lol. Because of this I went back onto my main, gave T4 RvR stuff another go and it was again horrible, I couldn't reach the rest of my WB and I basically got nothing out of it but frustration and most likely now feeding the egos of the players in the gank squads who are no doubt lurking the forums looking for noobs tears lol.
Yeah so really what do I do about this. I went from having tonnes of fun and starting to understand **** to basically becoming a noob again, not understanding anything and having no fun.
When I started out I wanted to level slowly, work on my RR and collect gear as I go so that I can actually have fun while levelling instead of just powerlevelling through PvE which I don't find that interesting but the way the ORvR works isn't really letting me do that. Because Destro zones remain locked for such a long time I can't reasonably grind up influence in the T2 zones before outlevelling them and I can't access the keeps right now to get the level 24 gear either because Destro have all of them and the zones are locked and I don't know how long for.
Because of this I've been forced to enter the T4 zones and attempt to do RvR there and while I was looking forward to this at endgame it's really sucky at the moment for a new player. The first issue I'm having is finding a WB with open slots, and when I've done that the next one is getting to them. I've wasted hours at this point just getting ganked repeatedly in the middle of RvR lakes trying to get to the WB I just joined but being completely unable to, and most of the time when I do get there I'm already feeling pretty frustrated with the game and it's not that enjoyable. This has happened so many times now it's gone from being funny to just completely tiring.
For example, I joined a warband in Reikland and followed them to Praag, once we hit Praag the leader and some others AFK'd so I was helping some dude run supplies. When they returned everyone disappeared off to Black Crag to raid the southern keep and I must've spent 30 minutes running through that zone trying to follow people and figure out the way. I followed a random WL but it turned out we were both lost and died a bunch of times to mobs. Eventually I asked my WB, they told me the way and as soon as I got to Badmoon Tunnels I saw an IB fighting a black ork, so I helped him out. After about 30 seconds of fighting some other players including a couple of Order healers joined in, but then a WE nuked me out of nowhere (surprise bitch you're dead) and they ignored my request for a rez. That's apparently what you get for helping strangers. Yeah so I spawn at the warcamp at the northern edge of the zone and at that point I just gave up because I'm not running for 10 more minutes through that **** zone just to get ganked in a tunnel again and not be able to even participate in the siege.
A similar situation occurred in Caledon where Destro were just roaming around ganking any stragglers like myself trying to get to Fell Landing. After spending **** ages trying to slip through to Fell Landing it turned out the zone was full and I never got to enter. More time wasted just being ganked in the road. Btw I don't have a problem with ganking/roaming whatever it is called here itself, it's part of the game and I encourage it despite the frustration. It's also a pretty clever tactic imo to split WBs up a bit and stop reinforcements getting to keeps, not sure how effective it actually is but it's good to see this type of thing.
The few times I've actually managed to meet up with my WB I've also gotten very little out of it too. I haven't completed a single "kill 25 players" quest in all the sieges I've been in and it's probably just due to the sheer volume of WBs and the fact people aren't really fighting that much they're just kinda sat on the keep walls harassing each other.
It's really getting frustrating just being that one lost noob all the time who doesn't really know what's going on and trying to keep up with pugs, and if you do ever reunite with them you'll just be useless anyway. What's worse is I don't even seem to be making much progress at all. I'm getting negligible amounts of renown, exp and inf for all this time invested and I'm just not having that much fun either. I wanted my levelling experience to be slow and enjoyable not slow and **** basically.
I need some advice really because I really don't know what to do. In all honesty I've just been frustrated all day. I was struggling in T4 and T2 zones were locked so I tried some scs. I was doing pretty badly and losing them also I logged a T1 alt. T1 had 67% Destro online at that particular time and the largest WB I could gather was 11 people with 0 healers so you can imagine how that went lol. Because of this I went back onto my main, gave T4 RvR stuff another go and it was again horrible, I couldn't reach the rest of my WB and I basically got nothing out of it but frustration and most likely now feeding the egos of the players in the gank squads who are no doubt lurking the forums looking for noobs tears lol.
Yeah so really what do I do about this. I went from having tonnes of fun and starting to understand **** to basically becoming a noob again, not understanding anything and having no fun.